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fuel prices high..... what we gonna do about it

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V8MoneyPit:
Having said all this, petrol is still not as expensive as it was in the early 70's. It went to over £5 a gallon then and with inflation included, that was a lot more than we are paying now.

But it's still *way* too much. With excessive duty and huge fuel company profits it *could* be reduced. But, of course, it won't.

Old Warthog:
Are you sure about over a fiver in the seventies.  I don't remember that - over £ 1 yes, a fiver would have been a quarter of my weekly wage, and I don't think I would have been running my Zephyr on a gallon a week.

Cheers

Keith

Rasbo:
if the government wernt to busy lining their pockets and shouting alot of rubbish in the h.o.c and did some proper research they may find that No.1 The U.K. produces 652 times less greenhouse gasses than china and india together. and No.2 A cow produces more methane than 4 4x4s. so why do i pay more and more road tax, and yet they cant even afford to maintain the roads.  And then fuel tax, its not only the fact we already pay a high amount of tax on goods, we now pay more tax on fuel than anywhere else in the world. Oil prices they say? how can the rest of the world afford not to charge so much then?  Think i may loan a Hummer and drive it around Goordan Browns house  :evil:

hobbit:
Found this though, sounds more like it


--- Quote ---"March 30 1977
PETROL today went up by 5½p per gallon following Chancellor Healey's
Budget. A survey on new prices facing Bolton motorists showed that
drivers can expect to pay between 79½p to 83½p for a gallon of four
star."
--- End quote ---


This is a good comparison on a lot of things including fuel, puts things in perspective

http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf

V8MoneyPit:

--- Quote from: Old Warthog on April 29, 2008, 21:55:54 ---Are you sure about over a fiver in the seventies.  I don't remember that - over £ 1 yes, a fiver would have been a quarter of my weekly wage, and I don't think I would have been running my Zephyr on a gallon a week.

Cheers

Keith

--- End quote ---

I found an article a while ago about this, but I can't locate it now!! Found that it was £4.16 a gallon in 1957 though.
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf

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